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How to Migrate AOL to Office 365? Best Method

AOL is a free web-based email service provider used for both professional as well as personal purposes to manage contacts, access, compose, and send emails. However, recently people have started facing some problems while accessing their AOL email accounts, and thus they want to migrate to other platforms like Office 365. Therefore, in this blog, we will provide you with the best methods to migrate AOL to Office 365.

Table of Contents:

1. Why Transfer AOL Emails to Office 365?
2. Manual Method to Add AOL to Outlook
3. IMAP AOL Settings for Outlook 365
4. Professional Tool to Migrate AOL to Office 365
5. Step by Step Method to Transfer AOL Emails to Office 365
6. Features of the Professional IMAP Migration Tool
7. Conclusion & FAQs

Why Transfer AOL Emails to Office 365?

Office 365 is a cloud-based service offered by Microsoft consisting of various services like Outlook, OneDrive, Word, Excel, etc. that helps in enhancing the productivity of its users. There are various reasons why users want to migrate AOL to Office 365, let us have a look at a few of them.

• Enhances Productivity: Office 365 helps in enhancing the productivity of its users because of the availability of other software like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, etc.
• Advanced Features: Users can avail of various advanced features of Office 365 as per the different subscription plans according to their needs and requirements.
• Efficient Management: Office 365 allows users to manage all their accounts efficiently as they have access to all their emails in a single place.

Now let us look at the different methods following which you can easily transfer AOL emails to Office 365, in the next section.

Manual Method to Add AOL to Outlook

Users can access their AOL emails using Outlook by adding their AOL emails to Office 365 with the help of the below mentioned steps.

1. Open Outlook on your system, go to “Settings” and then click on the “Connected accounts” option.
2. To link your AOL mail to Outlook, you can use the “POP or IMAP” details.
3. Next, add your AOL email “login credentials” and then click on the “OK” button.
4. After this, you will receive a message confirming the connection of your email account and you can also check it from the list of “Connected accounts”.

The manual method to migrate AOL to Office 365 has a very high risk of data loss while forwarding it to Outlook unless you have good technical knowledge. Hence, we have provided you with a better solution to transfer your AOL emails with the help of a professional migration tool.

IMAP AOL Settings for Outlook 365

Account Information Settings:

• Display Name: your old email
• Email Address: [email protected]
• User Name: [email protected]
• Password: your account’s password

Note: If you are using an old email app, in that case, you have to generate an app password and then use that for your account password.

Server Information Settings:

• Incoming Server (IMAP): imap.aol.com
• Outgoing Server (SMTP): smtp.aol.com
• Encryption: SSL
• Incoming port (IMAP): 993
• Outgoing port (SMTP): 465

Professional Tool to Migrate AOL to Office 365

The manual method has a very high risk of data loss, especially for users with limited technical knowledge, hence, the best solution for every user to transfer AOL emails to Office 365 is by using the Cloud Migration Tool. With the help of this tool, users can safely migrate single or multiple mailboxes from all IMAP accounts to Office 365.

Step by Step Method to Transfer AOL emails to Office 365

Now let us look at the steps that you need to follow for successful AOL to Office 365 migration.

1. Open the professional tool, from the “Setup” section select “IMAP” as the source and “Office 365” as the destination.
2. Enable the checkbox representing “Email” from the “Workload Selection” section.
3. You can use the “Date Filter” option which allows you to migrate only the selective data between the from and to date.
4. From the “Source” section select the “Other” option from the drop down list of the “IMAP Server”.
5. Now, enter the destination details like “Admin Email” and “Application ID”, and next click on the “Validate” button.
6. In the “Users” section choose how you want to add the users from the source account as per your requirement.
7. Next, add the “Source App Password” of the required accounts that you want to migrate and then click on the “Validate” button.
8. Click on the “Start Migration” button at the top right corner of your screen and check the accounts afterward from the “Completed” tab.

Features of the Professional Cloud Migration Tool

There are multiple reasons why you should consider using the professional IMAP migration tool to migrate AOL to Office 365, let us look at a few of them in brief.

• The professional software is capable of migrating single as well as bulk mailboxes from all IMAP accounts simultaneously.
• The tool supports the option of Delta Migration, allowing users to migrate only the new data, which is very helpful in avoiding duplication of data.
• Users can re-run the migration process or retry the failed items to ensure zero loss of their important data files.
• The tool allows users to generate a report that consists of all the details of the migration process in the CSV format which can be used for reference or future analysis.

Conclusion

Above we have discussed about the best methods to migrate AOL to Office 365, however, the manual method to add AOL to Outlook may not be an ideal solution due to the high risk of data loss. Therefore, the best method to transfer your AOL emails to Office 365 will be with the help of the professional migration tool mentioned above in the blog to ensure zero data loss.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q.1 For how long does AOL keep my deleted emails?

Ans. In case you delete your AOL emails it will go into the trash folder and will stay there for a week. You can get your email back from here within this time period.

Q.2 How can I automatically forward AOL emails to Outlook?

Ans. To forward your AOL email to Outlook, select and open the message that you want to forward and click on the forward button represented by an arrow on the left side of the top menu bar. Now enter the Outlook email address in the “To” box and then click on the “Send” button in the top left.

Q.3 How can I download my AOL emails?

Ans. Select the desired email message that you want to save click on the “More” button and then select the “Print Message” option from the list. Next, click on the “Change” button and choose the option “Save as PDF” to download your AOL email on your system.